Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 127, Issue 16

[G. Whyte]

Hi Guys...

I will try phoning you later-(I'm in the middle of  TV tower work before 
rain..)  but hope you got my message... I guess there were some plan changes 
or did I misunderstand Tuesday ? ...original plan was Dad goes to Lewiston 
Wed (solo) and I come down Thursday morning for a few hours .I had planned 
to get back for early afternoon..

I didn't get ur phone message until after I had left home at 8:45.  I had to 
stop in Newmarket when I realized I had left some crap in my car trunk and 
had to unload it into Jens car  at her work, so I'd have room to bring more 
up form your garage today ... then, I realized you may have left a massage 
on my magic jack...Unfortunately, MJ  it is not like Bell call answer with a 
"notification beep" or light... so I never think to check for unexpected 
messages.. I too use to Jenny's Bell notification and  her call 
display....sorry. I  was coming from Jennys and quickly sotpped at my place 
to call you to see what else you needed....but  you had already left..

I left a message with John White asking if he or Matt could lend a tonight 
when you get back ...but haven't heard back...if he or John can't drop by, 
let me know ASAP...maybe I will just drive down after diner time tonight and 
do it, then come back   ....

I was on a stand-by for a new dentist for this aft...but no luck...(soonest 
sked is next week- when I won't be here...so going to try again 
tomorrow..maybe different Dr...

Since you left Lewiston for today, I assume the Insurance adjuster re-sked? 
I wanted to get extra stuff out of garage so he didn't think it was part of 
the claim  but  you were going to go through it first ...you may want to 
keep some of the stuff yourself after a Bleach wash and  wire brushing wheel 
on the grinder to clean up handtools... I can get Matt to through Fridge in 
car to leave at Johns until I can get down.. but really not much there that 
you cant say is waiting to go out with "you got crap" or just cover ...

I drove back home after I got your mesage needing coax. I had F56 but only 
short lengths of Coax.. .....I did have a working  cut-out tool, but no 
bit..( probably some in the boxes in your garage_....If Matt comes over, 
.Matt should have a cut-out  from  work...if not, he can  use a utility 
knife  -or drywall saw if not going right into full drywall?..

Have to run and will call you later to see if John W or Matt  phoned 
you...( no calls received here....)

And if it's urgent to get the  TV done (and items out of garage), I will 
drive down tonight after rush-hour and just get back later  tonight... just 
want to make sure you aren't too tired after Lewiston..

L Gerg




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>   1. W6AM (BY THE LAKE)
>   2. Re: Don W6AM (George Dubovsky)
>   3. Re: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site 571-5
>      (Anthony Scandurra)
>   4. Re: Radial wire in bulk (ZR)
>   5. Re: Don W6AM (Carl)
>   6. Re: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site 571-5
>      (Rick Stealey)
>   7. Re: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site 571-5
>      (Charlie Cunningham)
>   8. Re: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site571-5
>      (Jeff Blaine)
>   9. Re: Don W6AM (donovanf at starpower.net)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 06:52:53 -0400
> From: "BY THE LAKE" <magoo at isp.ca>
> To: <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Topband: W6AM
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> An interesting thread on an interesting ham!  I recall seeing a picture in
> one of the magazines of Don at age 80+ at the top of one of his rhombic
> poles (some 100 ft each I believe) doing "routine maintenance".
>
> I was browsing through older QSTs recently and ran across an article by 
> him
> in November, 1937 titled "Making the Most of Directive Antennas-Practical
> Pointers on Operating a Number of Antennas in Limited Space".  This was, 
> of
> course, before he purchased the Press Wireless property in the hills and 
> it
> describes his Sterba Curtain and phased element wire beams.  Apparently, 
> he
> placed so much faith in his antenna static discharge system that he did 
> not
> shut down during thunder storms!
>
> Bill VE3NH
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:20:00 -0400
> From: George Dubovsky <n4ua.va at gmail.com>
> To: Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com>
> Cc: TopBand List <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Don W6AM
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> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> That, of course, doesn't change how antennas work. I have no doubt a good
>> monoband Yagi is as good as or better than a pretty large Ham Rhombic.
>
>
> Anecdotal information to be sure, but back in the 60's there was a series
> of articles in, I think, 73 magazine, that detailed Gus, W4BPD's ham
> career. Part of the story described how he prepared for post-WW2 dx-ing by
> erecting a bunch of rhombics down on the farm in Orangeburg, SC. When hams
> were once again authorized, he was up in the front of the pack for quite a
> while. The story goes on to relate how, on a visit to some ham-radio
> emporium in Atlanta (Ack's?), he was convinced to leave with a Yagi - 20
> meter, I think - and that on the return trip, he serendipitously acquired 
> a
> broadcast tower to mount it on. He installed it and, as the story was 
> told,
> he started finding more and more reasons to not repair the rhombics as 
> they
> succumbed to the elements. Anyone else remember these articles?
>
> 73,
>
> geo - n4ua
>
>
>> But I think we can talk about antennas and amplifiers, and some of the 
>> big
>> red glowing anodes, without getting in a snit or condemning some old dead
>> Ham. After all, most of us are 90% there already, and no one will really
>> care who had what first DXCC or country total. They will mostly remember
>> the characters that touched their lives. I still can hear W6VSS pounding 
>> in
>> to Ohio with his 25 watts on 1999 kHz, when I could just barely hear W6YY
>> with two half waves in phase on top of a 450-foot tower on some mountain.
>>
>> 73 Tom
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:24:10 -0400
> From: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra at gmail.com>
> To: Frederick Wagner <fhwagner4 at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: "topband at contesting.com" <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II
> site 571-5
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> For those who may interested in visiting the Titan Missile Museum and/or
> learning more about the museum and ham radio operations there, here are a
> few links that may interest you:
>
> http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/
>
> http://gvarc.us/GVARCFrames/Titan/Discone/Discone.htm
>
> http://www.wa0itp.com/titandiscone.html
>
> http://www.qsl.net/wb5dyg/html/Titan.htm
>
> 73, Tony K4QE
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Frederick Wagner
> <fhwagner4 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>> The article and discussion about W3CRA's wonderful results reminded me of
>> my tour of duty as a
>>
>> Missile Combat Crew Commander at Davis-Monthan AFB near Tucson. My 
>> primary
>> site, now destroyed,
>> was about 500 feet above the valley floor for headings about 300 through
>> 345 - and the antenna was a
>>
>> military Collins Discone over a military grade radial field, and the
>> discone could be fed at the base as a folded cage monopole -
>>
>> that monopole was about 60 feet tall and the cage was at least 45 feet in
>> diameter.
>> My 'free' time to operate was mainly at night, and I'd take my Century-21
>> transceiver to the site, and run some RG-58 from
>>
>> my commander's console down to where I could tie into the antenna
>> switching relay (our site rarely had to use HF for
>> communications). On 80 CW, at night, on that antenna, in the late 1970's,
>> working up into WA, BC, AK, JA and on to the rest of Asia
>> was like calling down a quiet hallway. The only Titan II site left in
>> Tucson is 571-6 down in the valley next to I-19,
>>
>> preserved as the Titan Missile Museum, and visiting hams can tie into the
>> discone  - but it sits next to a mountain of mine tailings,
>> with none of the takeoff  angle advantages that the site across the 
>> valley
>> and up the hill had.
>> If anyone wants to see the location, follow the two lane road East out of
>> Green Valley AZ up to the mouth of Madera Canyon.
>> Near the mountain, you'll see some faded Orange Fiberglass globes on the
>> HV powerlines. We periodically had military Helicopters
>> visiting the site, and those balls were so the helos would know where the
>> site, and the powerlines were.
>> My callsign in those days was W7HSS - I occasionally operated from other
>> sites west of the copper mines, but the best results
>> were always from my home site, 571-5
>>
>> Fred Wagner
>> KQ6Q (ex W7HSS, W5QDL, K(N)6VVD
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:03:45 -0400
> From: "ZR" <zr at jeremy.mv.com>
> To: "AA8R - Notebook" <aa8r at aol.com>, <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Radial wire in bulk
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>
> Check at the metal recyclers; Teflon insulated wire brings little money as
> scrap and is rather common where there is high tech and military
> contractors. Regular tinned copper and stranded PVC insulated is also 
> common
> and around here magnet wire as used in motor shops is hard to find in any
> quantity on a regular basis.
>
> Sometimes Fleabay is good when shipped from close by. I got all my 
> military
> telephone Beverage wire real cheap since its listing description was
> misleading, $25 for 2.5km was hard to take!
>
> Hamfests have always been good hunting during a poor economy.
>
> Carl
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "AA8R - Notebook" <aa8r at aol.com>
> To: <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 9:33 AM
> Subject: Topband: Radial wire in bulk
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a good online resource to purchase wire in bulk?  I am
>> in
>> the process of laying down a radial system for a 160m Inverted L.
>>
>>
>>
>> Randy, AA8R
>>
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector
>>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:37:46 -0400
> From: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> To: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji at w8ji.com>, "TopBand List"
> <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Don W6AM
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> Subject: Re: Topband: Don W6AM
>
>
>>I think this topic has gone from talking about actual radios and antennas
>>and the merits and folklore about each, to disrespecting people.
>>
>> I actually thought it was kind of neat that as a 12 year old kid, living
>> in a house with tar paper outside and dirt floors and building my gear
>> with parts from a dump, that someone was kind and thoughtful enough to
>> have a 160 signal I could hear clearly from the west coast on the crap I
>> had for equipment, and that could hear me with as little as I knew about
>> antennas and the small junk I had.  As long as all those old guys were
>> having fun and not hurting anyone, that's OK with me. I never felt
>> anything except admiration for them being available for contacts, and how
>> loud they were.
>>
>> That, of course, doesn't change how antennas work. I have no doubt a good
>> monoband Yagi is as good as or better than a pretty large Ham Rhombic. 
>> But
>> I think we can talk about antennas and amplifiers, and some of the big 
>> red
>> glowing anodes, without getting in a snit or condemning some old dead 
>> Ham.
>> After all, most of us are 90% there already, and no one will really care
>> who had what first DXCC or country total. They will mostly remember the
>> characters that touched their lives. I still can hear W6VSS pounding in 
>> to
>> Ohio with his 25 watts on 1999 kHz, when I could just barely hear W6YY
>> with two half waves in phase on top of a 450-foot tower on some mountain.
>>
>> 73 Tom
>
>
> The QST's of the late 20's, thru the 30's, are full of  W6AM items from
> station descriptions, articles, stations worked, etc. How he was alerted 
> of
> DX and got home or laments of when he was in SF on business and missed a 
> new
> one.
>
> I always enjoyed reading about him and somewhere in a drawer or attic box 
> is
> a 10M QSL from when I was a 14 yr old SWL using a HB regen. It had a RF
> stage and was out of a Popular Mechanics article from mostly parts 
> scrounged
> from the various town dumps I could bicycle to. My parents gave me 
> prewound
> plug in coil sets as a birthday present and the tuning caps and vernier 
> dial
> came from Radio Row in NYC which was a subway ride.
>
> I still have those coils!
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 15:21:51 +0000
> From: Rick Stealey <rstealey at hotmail.com>
> To: "topband at contesting.com" <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II
> site 571-5
> Message-ID: <COL126-W30E914402943EF0861FE72CE540 at phx.gbl>
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>
>
>
> No matter how impressive that discone antenna looks, it still is just a 
> vertical, right?
> Nothing magical about the signal it radiates.
> I mean, you're not going to have DX falling all over you telling you 
> you're the loudest signal on the band.
>
> Rick  K2XT
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:34:10 -0400
> From: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com>
> To: "'Rick Stealey'" <rstealey at hotmail.com>, <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II
> site 571-5
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> I expect that the main advantage of a discone antenna is bandwidth.
>
> Charlie, K4OTV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stealey
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site
> 571-5
>
>
>
> No matter how impressive that discone antenna looks, it still is just a
> vertical, right?
> Nothing magical about the signal it radiates.
> I mean, you're not going to have DX falling all over you telling you 
> you're
> the loudest signal on the band.
>
> Rick  K2XT
>
> _________________
> Topband Reflector
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:34:40 -0500
> From: "Jeff Blaine" <jeff at ac0c.com>
> To: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com>, "'Rick
> Stealey'" <rstealey at hotmail.com>, <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II
> site571-5
> Message-ID: <59F903E4FFC24269B1790C2AF2464BDB at w520>
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> reply-type=original
>
> Right, the discone is sort of the LPDA of the vertical world.
>
> 73/jeff/ac0c
> www.ac0c.com
> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Charlie Cunningham
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: 'Rick Stealey' ; topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II
> site571-5
>
> I expect that the main advantage of a discone antenna is bandwidth.
>
> Charlie, K4OTV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stealey
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Height of antenna and takoff angle - Titan II site
> 571-5
>
>
>
> No matter how impressive that discone antenna looks, it still is just a
> vertical, right?
> Nothing magical about the signal it radiates.
> I mean, you're not going to have DX falling all over you telling you 
> you're
> the loudest signal on the band.
>
> Rick  K2XT
>
> _________________
> Topband Reflector
>
> _________________
> Topband Reflector
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: donovanf at starpower.net
> To: TopBand List <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Don W6AM
> Message-ID:
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>
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>
> Gus was DX editor for 73 Magazine starting in January 1973. All issues of
> 73 magazine are available free of charge on archive.org
>
> Just use Google to search for: "W4BPD site:archive.org"
>
> Here's what Gus had to say in his first column as DX editor in his unique 
> very casual style.
> DXing was much different when he wrote his first column 40 years ago, but 
> much
> the same too. I thought some of you might like to read his first column.
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> Hello, "You-AH", looks like it will be me running
> this column and the WTW Award from this date on.
>
> Let me introduce myself:
>
> Name: Gus M. Browning
> Call: W4BPD
> Have signed well over 165 other calls from DX locations overseas
>
> Been A DXer since Nov, 25, 1927
> QSOs made: Total over 600,000
> DXCC Nr. 4
> WAZ Nr. 40
> and lots of the other awards not all can be remembered.
>
> Occupations: Editor & Publisher of The DXers Magazine,
> printer and Electronic Repair Shop,
>
> Thats enough tooting my own horn.
> Plenty of time at later dates.
>
> I need all the good, reliable DX tidbits, news, DXpedition
> plans, DX QSL info, and even any good photographs
> (in black and white - when possible)
> you may happen to have or get later on -
> They will to returned to you if you.
> I mention "return to ??? on the back side of them.
>
> You can send your info to me either at the address of this
> magazine or (to save time) send it to me direct at this address:
>
> Gus M. Browning, W4BPD
> Drawer "DX"
> Cordova, S.C. 29039
> Or if you run across something that's red hot" and you think is
> important enough you could call me (please NOT COLLECT) at:
> (803) 534-6485
> You can call me anytime of day or night (as late as 2 o'clock A.M,
> local time - I work that late every night here - 7 nights per week).
>
> In submitting info to me please keep in mind that I will have to
> have the news items in my hand no later than 3 days before the
> first of each month. This is being prepared on October 28th. as an
> example of how long before ot appears in your magazine.
>
> In case you haven't heard yet, the year 1973 is being called "our
> year" by 73 magazine so Wayne (the "big boss") and I have come
> up with an award to celebrate, an award not too hard to make. All
> you have gotta do is to work 73 different countries in the first 73
> days of 1973, We will call this something like "The 73 - 73 - 73
> DX Award." So get the old rig ready to start on Jan 1st, 1973.
> After you have worked your 73 different countries in the first 73
> days of 1973 (thats the 14th of March) get three other hams to
> certify your log send us the fist of stations you worked, giving the
> dates and times, etc. of the QSOs. The Award may be either a nice
> certificate or lapel pin, maybe it will have a small "cost" tacked on
> to cover our cost or maybe even free (if Wayne can afford to lose
> on the whole thing). Will let you know well in advance of the
> March 14th.
>
> Future DXpeditioneers, prepare for all events* because you will have
> certain troubles" (other than the usual licensing, customs, etc.) You
> will have QSL problems when you are back home, you will have a lot
> of such items as, time wrong, band wrong, even the mode and band
> will be wrong. Then you may have a "pirate" working the fellows at
> the same dates you are on. some- times a few days before or after
> you are on. Be sure you have a good GMT watch or clock and set
> it right and be sure of your GMT date (this also goes for those back
> here working the DX stations, too). All the above came to mind when I
> received a letter from Jim, K9TZH after his operation at Market Reef,
> where he operated as OJ0SUF.
> A portion of his letter quoted:
>
> "OJ0SUF QSL INFO: Fellows I am very sorry that there has been
> such confusion regarding the Market Reef Expedition QSL s. When I
> left Finland, all was in order but since that time, problems have
> developed concerning financing the 6000 cards. Have just received a
> letter from OH2BHU, who stated that the cards have finally been ordered
> and will be coming out very soon. Anyone having problems getting
> a card for their QSO please write me and I will do everything in my
> power to get the contact confirmed. This includes fellows who have
> received their own cards back marked "Not in Log".
>
> I would like to emphasize this is not a request for $ Jim says in
> the letter, "if I had only knew then, what I know now", after
> mentioning other problems.
> NOW FOR THE WTW AWARD
> At the present moment all the info and present status of the WTW is in
> the hands of Dave, K2AGZ and I am QRX for him to send all the
> info, etc. down here so that I can arrange it all in the files and then
> get going on the project again. I hope to soon receive this all from
> Dave and get going again. I suggest that all confirmations be sent to
> me direct instead of to 73 Mag, It will be more quickly handled
> and be less chance of your cards being lost, etc. I do very strongly
> suggest that you send your cards by "certified ' (cheaper), or via
> Registered mail and include enough (either stamps or money) to return
> your cards by "certified mail' plus of course the usual parcel post
> costs and naturally the WTW fee of One Dollar (to partly cover our
> costs). Be sure to list every card in the order they appear in the DXCC
> country list, giving date, etc. of the contact. Remember we will keep
> this list you send us. You had better make yourself up a duplicate
> list to keep for reference purposes at later dates when you add new
> countries to your standing in the WTW. Remember there are three
> awards, the WTW* 100, WTW-200 and WTW- 300 and these can be
> earned on CW and then the same for all PHONE. Will be telling you
> more about this from time to time.
> We are thinking about maybe giving nice Lapel Pins for the 200
> and 300 plateaus of our WTW. I wonder when the ARRL will start
> something like this, too 7 And while I am "wondering", why not
> also wonder about the overall viewpoint of DXing in general?
>
> For instance, why not more countries? YES that's what I said "more
> countries"! I have not met anyone yet who really has complained that
> there are "too many now". This word "countries" are used very
> loosely when refering to our DX awards. Except WTW, which stands
> for Worked The World, certainly a more descriptive group of words
> when talking about our kind of DX. I think it's time for Big Brother,
> the ARRL to do something about their DX Award set-up, give some
> pins for the 200 and 300 brackets, give us some new countries, cut
> that 250 miles separation between islands for a starter * OR - better
> yet -START SOMETHING BRAND NEW. (all of which I doubt they
> will do.) With computers being used these days even by some of my
> small grocery stores, I am sure that this could be done at a very
> reasonable price. They of course would be able to use the computer in
> many other ways when it is put in.
> This is nearly 1973 (73 Magazine's) and times are changing rapidly
> and I think ARRL will have to do the same to "keep up to date" with
> the rapidly changing world I know that I will receive many
> letters telling me to not "rock the boat", you can't fight the
> establishment, etc. My answer to these is all the same Ole Buddy,
> you have your ideas and I have mine and if you want to "air" your ideas
> we have the "LETTERS" page in 73 for you to use (I also have "Letters
> to the editor" page or pages (if necessary in my little DXers Mag.)
> They are yours to use to let the other fellow have your viewpoints,
> All I want to do is to have MORE DX for the boys to chase, giving
> them something to do these long winter nights coming on us now.
>
> I wonder if there are still some of you out there that have not yet
> tried making some of these new "gadgets" using these new IC's?
> It took me ONE HOUR to build a very FB 10 meter pre-amp using a
> Motorola type 1590G and it gave a 50 db gain with less noise than I
> could hear from my Collins 75S-3. Have built up a number of very FB
> other little "goodies" (quite useful, "gadgets".) All which will get
> you started with Solid State, you may as well face it fellows, solid
> state is with us and the days of hot, noisy, inefficient, etc. is about 
> over.
> You are never too old to learn !! 73 Magazine will give you plenty
> of these little "goodies" to build.
> Try a few of them and the Old Bug will bite you again and you
> will again become a ham like you used to be! - Remember ??
> That's it for this month,
>
> 73 es DX,
> de W4BPD
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "George Dubovsky" <n4ua.va at gmail.com>
> To: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji at w8ji.com>
> Cc: "TopBand List" <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 12:20:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Topband: Don W6AM
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> That, of course, doesn't change how antennas work. I have no doubt a good
>> monoband Yagi is as good as or better than a pretty large Ham Rhombic.
>
>
> Anecdotal information to be sure, but back in the 60's there was a series
> of articles in, I think, 73 magazine, that detailed Gus, W4BPD's ham
> career. Part of the story described how he prepared for post-WW2 dx-ing by
> erecting a bunch of rhombics down on the farm in Orangeburg, SC. When hams
> were once again authorized, he was up in the front of the pack for quite a
> while. The story goes on to relate how, on a visit to some ham-radio
> emporium in Atlanta (Ack's?), he was convinced to leave with a Yagi - 20
> meter, I think - and that on the return trip, he serendipitously acquired 
> a
> broadcast tower to mount it on. He installed it and, as the story was 
> told,
> he started finding more and more reasons to not repair the rhombics as 
> they
> succumbed to the elements. Anyone else remember these articles?
>
> 73,
>
> geo - n4ua
>
>
>> But I think we can talk about antennas and amplifiers, and some of the 
>> big
>> red glowing anodes, without getting in a snit or condemning some old dead
>> Ham. After all, most of us are 90% there already, and no one will really
>> care who had what first DXCC or country total. They will mostly remember
>> the characters that touched their lives. I still can hear W6VSS pounding 
>> in
>> to Ohio with his 25 watts on 1999 kHz, when I could just barely hear W6YY
>> with two half waves in phase on top of a 450-foot tower on some mountain.
>>
>> 73 Tom
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>>
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